A drum assembly for a ball mill system may comprise: a drum having a first flange extending axially forward from a first radial wall, a second flange extending axially aft from a second radial wall, and a cylinder shell extending axially from a first radially outer end of the first radial wall to a second radially outer end of the second radial wall; a frame coupled to the first flange; and an inlet liner coupled to the frame, the inlet liner comprising a plurality of inlet segments disposed circumferentially adjacent to each other, the inlet liner defining an inlet radius for the drum assembly.

A grinding circuit comprises a grinding mill having a shaft in a grinding chamber, a cyclone for receiving circuit feed material and for feeding said circuit feed material further in the grinding circuit, and monitoring devices. The grinding mill process comprises pumping circuit feed material from a feed tank to the cyclone upstream of the mill, and pumping the circuit feed material forming slurry into the grinding mill for grinding the slurry into finer particles. The method of controlling the grinding mill process comprises monitoring at least one operational parameter, and controlling particle fineness online by adjusting at least one of the following operational parameters: flow rate of the circuit feed material, density of the circuit feed material, shaft speed, filling rate in the grinding mill, milling density and retention time.

Provided is a stress distribution element for a mill shell joint, comprising an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end. The elongated body varies in one dimension from the proximal end to the distal end to distribute stress forces from the proximal end to the distal end. The invention also provides a stress distribution system, a stress distribution assembly, a mill shell section, a mill shell and a method of distributing stress incorporating the stress distribution element.

Provided is a stress distribution element for a mill shell joint, comprising an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end. The elongated body varies in one dimension from the proximal end to the distal end to distribute stress forces from the proximal end to the distal end. The invention also provides a stress distribution system, a stress distribution assembly, a mill shell section, a mill shell and a method of distributing stress incorporating the stress distribution element.

An arrangement and method for detaching an adhering charge from an inner wall of a grinding tube, wherein the grinding tube is rotated backwards in a drive-free manner from a pre-determinable, assumed rotary position by the weight force of the adhering charge, where at least one movement state variable of the grinding tube is detected and the grinding tube is braked while being rotated back in dependence on the at least one detected movement state variable in order to detach the adhering charge from the inner wall of the grinding tube, and where the arrangement includes a detecting device, a drive unit, a braking device and a control device.

An arrangement and method for detaching an adhering charge from an inner wall of a grinding tube, wherein the grinding tube is rotated backwards in a drive-free manner from a pre-determinable, assumed rotary position by the weight force of the adhering charge, where at least one movement state variable of the grinding tube is detected and the grinding tube is braked while being rotated back in dependence on the at least one detected movement state variable in order to detach the adhering charge from the inner wall of the grinding tube, and where the arrangement includes a detecting device, a drive unit, a braking device and a control device.

This invention consists of a new analyzer system of the sounds generated in mills that capture the signals issued by the mineral and steel balls cascade that perform grinding. These signals are processed in an embedded system (2) formed by a field programmable gates array (FPGA) and a processor. The system is comprised of an industrial microphone array (1) that captures the sound signals that are converted from analog to digital through and acquisition system (3) specialized in sound signals, processed by a FPGA capable of performing parallel operations at high speed due to the customized hardware developed for this application, and sent to the processor through a high-speed data bus.

This invention consists of a new analyzer system of the sounds generated in mills that capture the signals issued by the mineral and steel balls cascade that perform grinding. These signals are processed in an embedded system (2) formed by a field programmable gates array (FPGA) and a processor. The system is comprised of an industrial microphone array (1) that captures the sound signals that are converted from analog to digital through and acquisition system (3) specialized in sound signals, processed by a FPGA capable of performing parallel operations at high speed due to the customized hardware developed for this application, and sent to the processor through a high-speed data bus.

A discharge end wall system mounted on a discharge end wall in a grinding mill. The discharge wall system includes a discharge end assembly that has a number of pulp lifter segments radially arranged on the discharge end wall relative to the axis of rotation, and a number of curved walls connected with the pulp lifter segments and arranged in pairs of adjacent ones thereof. Each trailing one of the curved walls has a curved leading edge surface that is concave in relation to the direction of rotation and, with a leading edge surface of a selected leading one of the pulp lifter segments, forms a continuous leading wall that is partially straight and partially curved. The leading wall is configured to accelerate pulp through the pulp chamber partially thereby defined respectively to a central hole, when the pulp chamber partially defined thereby is in the discharge condition thereof.

Mixture of particles comprising a non-conducting or semi-conducting nucleus covered with a hybrid conductor coating and hybrid conductor chains located between the particles of the mixture to constitute a conductivity network, that is prepared by mechanical crushing. Due to a very good conductivity of the network, a low resistivity, a very good capacity under elevated current and/or a good density of energy, these mixtures of particles are advantageously incorporated in anodes and cathodes of electrochemical generators, resulting in highly performing electrochemical systems.